[[Wizards|Witches and wizards]] who are born with the rare natural gift for [[prophecy]] are known as [[Seer]]s, who can forsee the future with their [[Inner Eye]]. Non-Seers can learn divination methods, but their success varies. [[Divination (class)|Divination]] is taught as an elective subject from the [[third year]] on at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]].<ref>''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'', Chapter 4</ref>

[[Wizards|Witches and wizards]] who are born with the rare natural gift for [[prophecy]] are known as [[Seer]]s, who can forsee the future with their [[Inner Eye]]. Non-Seers can learn divination methods, but their success varies. [[Divination (class)|Divination]] is taught as an elective subject from the [[third year]] on at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]].<ref>''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'', Chapter 4</ref>

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Learned wizards and witches seem to regard the practice of divination with scepticism. [[Hermione Granger]] once described it as "woolly" and "a lot of guesswork,"<ref name="poa6">''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' Chapter 6</ref> [[Minerva McGonagall]] thought it was "one of the most imprecise branches of magic,"<ref name="poa5" /> and before he decided to take on [[Sybill Trelawney]] as Divination [[professor]] at Hogwarts, [[Albus Dumbledore]] was inclined to scrap the subject altogether.<ref>''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', Chapter 37</ref>

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Learned wizards and witches seem to regard the practise of divination with scepticism. [[Hermione Granger]] once described it as "woolly" and "a lot of guesswork,"<ref name="poa6">''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' Chapter 6</ref> [[Minerva McGonagall]] thought it was "one of the most imprecise branches of magic,"<ref name="poa5" /> and before he decided to take on [[Sybill Trelawney]] as Divination [[professor]] at Hogwarts, [[Albus Dumbledore]] was inclined to scrap the subject altogether.<ref>''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', Chapter 37</ref>

Wandlore

Centaur divination

Centaurs have a way of practising divination distinct from that of humans, apparently mainly based around observing the movement of planets, moons, and stars, which they had been doing for centuries by 1996.[5] It can take up to a decade for centaurs to understand what these celestial portents meant.[5] They may attempt to narrow their prediction of when an event will take place by burning certain herbs, such as sage and mallowsweet, and looking for various shapes and symbols in the fumes.[5]

Centaurs seem to have had a low opinion of human methods of divination. Firenze, who taught Divination at Hogwarts, described what "humans call fortune-telling" as "self-flattering nonsense," and voiced the belief that humans obsess over mundane, day-to-day predictions because they are "blinkered and fettered by the limitations of [their] kind."[5]

↑Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 15 - (The Forbidden Forest) - Hermione tells Harry that what he's saying sounds like "fortune-telling," which Professor McGonagall says is a very imprecise branch of magic.